How many of you use RSS feeds?
Do you even know what they are?
I’ll lay money you’ve seen this symbol before and knew it meant RSS but didn’t actually know what it did. Well I’m going to explain it for you so listen up!
RSS means Rich Site Summary which is just what it says on the tin, a round-up of the key points of the content of a website. See, you knew that but did you know that you can set up an RSS feed to go out into the ether and bring you back information that you’re actually interested in?
No? It’s very easy and stops you having to check the same websites all the time as it brings you updates on new content so you can spend your time doing something much more interesting.
It’s not just traditional websites that you can get information from as you can get Really Simple Syndication feeds from social software like wikis and blogs too.
I confused you there didn’t I?
RSS feeds have 2 names but it’s not important what is vital is that you try it out. Stop spending forever trawling the internet and let the PC do the work for you. Go to Google set up an account if you don’t already have one (it’s free) and at the top left there’s a drop down menu that says more. The Google reader is in there and you’re ready to subscribe to feeds. Simply choose websites to subscribe to like perhaps the BBC, Job Centre Plus or even You Tube and whenever anything knew is added, you’ll be the 1st to know.
Or will you take it one step further and set up Google Alerts? With this you can monitor the WHOLE OF THE INTERNET. Big brother look out!
You don't even have to choose specific websites. Google Alerts will email you results based on your choice so if you want to find out if someone is talking about you anywhere in the world you can. How useful is that?
There’s just no hiding from Google.
What will you search for? Don’t tell me I can guess.
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